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I can't say I really understand all the types of factions that are fighting in the Syrian civil war or their motivations, but one thing I am often struck by when viewing video of the conflict is how much the "spray and pray" philosophy is deployed. Even the guys who look like they might have had some training seem to fire into the distance more in hope than with intent. Is there any real organised training?

ISIS fighters apparently get 10/15 days of Religious training (indoctrination) followed by the same length of time of military training. It's not much, but good experienced officers backed by iron discipline makes up for some of the handicap. The soviet system is the closest thing to what we have here, inexpensive conscripts obeying to the letter the orders of the experienced and learned high command

Farmers, shop owners, day labourers, barbers, butchers and such. These guys don't have much military training but still run their own groups. Hence, twenty guys attacking a two man check point.. These guys are IF, FSA, and that camp. Guys who hang out by HQ so they can connect to the wifi. Mainly fighting in areas around their homes, so are less interested in offence, and more into defending their area.

Al-Nusra fighters are trained, they undergo religious training or something, military training, and have strict guidelines on who can join. If you have smoked, for example, you can't join. They are disciplined, but a couple month's training had its short comings.

Foreign guys: Then the veterans of Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan, with the odd Swiss or Italian mercenary. These guys are trained, usually equipped, but only number in the hundreds to couple thousand. There is also a large-ish group of untrained GCC hotheads.

Maybe.. but war is way more than that. Just look what Afghan people did to the US. These people can't even be compared, most of them are like skinny with weapons from WW II against the US marines and soldiers that were trained for months using the most modern equipment.. and the US still can't get them down.. actually they are losing the war.